Steeplechase Park was created by George C. Tilyou, a Coney Island resident inspired by the Hugh Ferris’ famous wheel at the 1898 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Tilyou would bring not only the ...

It’s been a long, strange roller-coaster ride for Coney Island since Fred Trump, President Trump’s dad, gleefully demolished Steeplechase Park in 1966 — the last of the boardwalk’s trio of ...

Steeplechase Pier sits next to Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones ... Catsimatidis, who is also pushing to bring casinos to Coney Island, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars ...

Coney Island weathered the Great Depression ... Two years later, entrepreneur George C. Tilyou opened Steeplechase Park, which became famous for its signature mechanical horse ride.

Coney Island is continuing to celebrate its storied ... “It began when Thompson and Dundy brought ‘A Trip to the Moon’ to Steeplechase Park in 1902 and culminated in 1962 with Astroland ...

The land once belonged to Steeplechase Park, one the three original major amusement parks in Coney Island. George Tilyou founded it in 1897, but it closed in 1964 due to low attendance.

"Between 1897 and 1904, three amusement parks sprang up at Coney Island: Dreamland, Luna Park and Steeplechase." Coney Island’s first hotel had opened in 1829 — and by the post-Civil War years ...

This film shows a mechanical ride in an amusement park, designed to allow customers to ride down an undulating incline astride wooden horses. Several groups of people are seen enjoying the ride ...